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Introduced January 22, 2025 by Ilhan Omar · Last progress January 22, 2025
The bill narrows wartime detention authority to expand civil‑liberties protections for noncitizens and rein in executive power, while reducing statutory options for quick detention/removal of foreign nationals during wartime and potentially complicating rapid enforcement.
Non‑naturalized immigrants would no longer be subject to automatic wartime detention or statutory wartime restrictions, restoring individual liberty protections for those populations.
Reduces the President's broad discretionary authority to impose wartime internment-type measures, increasing checks on executive power and strengthening civil‑liberties safeguards for the public and federal actors who implement such orders.
Federal officials would lose a statutory tool to detain or remove foreign nationals in wartime, potentially limiting options to address individuals who pose security risks.
Could complicate or delay wartime immigration enforcement and emergency public‑safety actions by removing a clear statutory authority, making rapid protective measures harder to execute without a replacement mechanism.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals the federal statutes that allowed the President to detain, restrain, relocate, or regulate certain "alien enemies" in the U.S. during a proclaimed war or invasion.
Repeals the federal statutory provisions that authorize the President, upon declaration of war or invasion, to apprehend, detain, restrict, remove, or otherwise regulate "alien enemies" (non‑naturalized foreign nationals/subjects age 14 and up) within the United States. The change removes that specific wartime detention and regulation authority from the U.S. Code.